Oswego hosts seminar on keeping Lake Ontario healthy

Oswego, NY -- Oswego will host one of a series of Lake Ontario Visioning for a Healthy Lake workshops this month.

Citizens living along Lake Ontario and its tributaries are invited to provide input at one of the workshops. The Oswego event is from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 29 at the State University College at Oswego Campus Center Room 201.

New York Sea Grant, the Finger Lakes–Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance and the Niagara County Soil and Water Conservation District are holding the workshops to provide information on issues related to Lake Ontario and its priority tributaries, including the Genesee and Oswego Rivers, and to gather input from the public on lake basin conditions and priorities for a healthy lake system.

In addition to Oswego, workshops at planed for Lyndonville, Piffard, Webster, Henderson and Sodus.